thats a very good point. I totally agree that the mission should be to transport the idea of free software instead of open source. cialis (After long discussions with George Greve I totaly understand this. :-) ).

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Is this really necessary to inform you each month that we still need the project page?
If this is the fact we will think about to host the project somewhere else. I really appreciate
all you are doing and I really love the Free Software Foundation, but under this conditions
there is really to much overhead to host a project.

We will be reviewing the cvs code in a month (or better at your request) to check if the source files contain appropriate copyright notice and permission-to-copy statements at the beginning of every file of source code.
Our review would help catch potential legal issues early.

thats a very good point. I totally agree that the mission should be to transport the idea of free software instead of open source. (After long discussions with George Greve I totaly understand this. :-) ).

But FreeRadioFriendFinder on the other hand is a very long word....Hmmm

But I like the short version FRFF. And I strongly want to support the philosophy of free software.

So lets rename the project to FreeRadioFriendFinder with the unix (system) name frff.

Savannah's mission is to host free software projects, and we want the public to think of them
as free software projects. A project name that says "open" will tend to lead people to think
of the project as "open source" instead of "free software".

We would be glad if you accept to use "free" instead of "open" in your project name.

We can approve it, and review the code in the near future (or better, at your request).
We will among other check if the source files contain appropriate copyright notice and permission-to-copy statements
at the beginning of every file of source code. Our review would help catch potential legal issues early.

If then the source code does not meet our requirements (for example, non-free dependencies),
we will then discuss the issue and possibly remove the project from Savannah.

Thank you very much for your mail and the help you are offering for licence checking.

1) Code Licence
All tools or libs we are using for our project are from GNU or savannah. I think it is
not necessary to look for each lincence for this projects because they are allready
controlled by you or your colleagues.

The opentracker itself is extreme rudimentary. The Whereavr is more advanced but
far from our requirements. As we wrote we want to add more features to it than the
whereavr had.
So what we are using are AX.25 libraries or PSK31 (http://ax25.sourceforge.net/ and
http://www.kernel.org) and not the sourcecode from whereavr or opentracker (this project
is not based on Atmel and therefore not useable for us). The Whereavr and
opentracker are only inspirations.

2)Hardware
The Hardware is of course free as in speech. (If someone whants he can offer a beer,
but thats not necessary. :-) ) The hardware layout is also developed by us.

3)Source Code
/dev/zero
Sorry at the moment we do not have source code available. Only small
test programms for the ATMEL (call it Hello World). The project development is
decentral therefore we need your service to organize the project and let us develop
the source code via CVS.

Hi,
I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

At first, can you please point me to the project websites or to the licenses directly (prefered ;)) of your "required software"?

At second, is the produced hardware layout also free (free speech, not free bear) or is it restricted?

At third, please include a (perhaps temporary) URL pointing to the source code.
The description you gave when registering will not be read by the general public.
If you are still concerned with privacy, however, you can forward the code to me by email.

We wish to review your source code, even if it is not functional, to catch potential legal issues early.

For example, to release your program properly under the GPL you must include a copyright notice and
permission-to-copy statements at the beginning of every file of source code. This is explained in
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html. Our review would help catch potential omissions such as these.

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This project maily gaims on HAM (Amateur Radio Operators). Based on the ATMEL Microcontroller this project develop hard and software for an APRS (www.aprs.org) portabel client.